Tatiana’s notice about Lena: “If her character allows her to be patient with new hard workload“ only supports the idea that Lena didn’t show her best at practises in past years.

Which is quite different from "Elena is lazy". Not being patient and being lazy are two different things completely.
So Nikita was not a good leader. Elena was not patient and they split. Good riddance.
Can we move on now and stop with all this talk about what I&K did or didn't do in the practice 2 years ago?

I am curious. In TAT interview, she said she had not seen I/Z yet and only praised "I" as great dancer. Is TAT not much interested in I/Z? thinking that they are not special or are the ones casted out? If she wants, she can visit their training easily, right?

I think the interview is made when they were on vacation, as she said. Now they are training in Latvia so I don't think she can see them yet.

Which is quite different from "Elena is lazy". Not being patient and being lazy are two different things completely.
So Nikita was not a good leader. Elena was not patient and they split. Good riddance.
Can we move on now and stop with all this talk about what I&K did or didn't do in the practice 2 years ago?

Oh yes, its about time. I do hope that they can find a way to be on civil if not friendly terms in the future. She was on the verge of tears at the ball

You need a little ''fiery temperament'' to show Carmen. Also short dance is very short with all those paso doble pattern, steps, lift and twizzles, I don't think there is much time to show character of the dance. Could be risky choice for some teams, of course I'm fully behind Elena Ilinykh and Anna Capellini.

Why we should protest Carmen? We always watch entire ice dancers doing tango or waltz or latin as short dance. Most painful year for me is the 2011, where 20 teams skated Golden Waltz which taking half of the dance alone 5 teams doing Carmen is heaven for me considering other short dance alternatives.

Battle of the Carmens 2.0
Who will be Debi Thomas? Who will be Katarina Witt? Will Sinitsina/Katsalapov - or someone else - sneak in a la Elizabeth Manley?
Tune in next season at Russian Nationals to find out answers to these questions and more!

Battle of the Carmens 2.0
Who will be Debi Thomas? Who will be Katarina Witt? Will Sinitsina/Katsalapov - or someone else - sneak in a la Elizabeth Manley?
Tune in next season at Russian Nationals to find out answers to these questions and more!

lmfao! Killing me per usual!!! There are so many ID teams that have yet to announce their music choices that I am literally waiting for more people to have the same music (not necessarily "Carmen")....

Battle of the Carmens 2.0
Who will be Debi Thomas? Who will be Katarina Witt? Will Sinitsina/Katsalapov - or someone else - sneak in a la Elizabeth Manley?
Tune in next season at Russian Nationals to find out answers to these questions and more!